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A Second Brachydactjjlons Family 



conviction that the two families must have descended from the same 

 original stock. 



The connection between them unfortimatejy cannot now be 

 established, for there is not a single surname common to the two 

 families. This difference in names may be accounted for by the 



ABC 



Fig. 1. Normal and Biachjdactylous Phalanges. (Natural size.) 

 A. Normal. B. IWinor-Brachydactylous. C. Bracbjdactylous. 



fact that the inheritance in the second famil}- has been almost ex- 

 clusively through the female line, so that the suinaiin- has changed 

 (through mari'iage) at each generation. 



Both families reside in the same part of the country: a fact which 

 would seem to give some support to the theory of their common origin. 



Dr W. C. Faraboe was the first to describe the condition of Brachy- 

 dactyly in a fiimily that he studied in 190.S' in North America. Is 



' Published in March 1905 by tlie Peabody Institute, Harvard, U.S.A. 



